In case you're still asking yourself, "Was participating in this rally worth the risk of death?", I want to be clear: you're asking the wrong question.

White supremacy and toxic masculinity offer the same appeal along the dimensions in which they operate: the thrill of looking away from who you are as an individual. That means looking away from the ways you are vulnerable as an individual.

The rational response to coronavirus is to see the damage the virus has done and to implement measures to minimize the damage. Neither white supremacy nor toxic masculinity share this concern. Both are animated by deluding everyone in their thrall that they are invincible.

Trump supporters who attended the poorly populated rally tonight are people who elevate delusions of feeling invincible over introspection in the ways they are vulnerable. To a certain extent, that's what every form of bigotry entails: looking away from where you are insecure.